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ok now that this is leaving criterion tonight (sorry!!!) this movie is so good and the computer revolution/ai parallels are so good and resonant even if it's international business machine propaganda it still lands and slaps at the same time

this is also how i found out nora ephron is a nepo baby

why didn't anyone tell me about desk set

I'm not only mad as hell—I'm not going to take it anymore.

interesting perspective as a meat-writer, and maybe one-day meat-book writer hughhowey.com/the-end-of-a...

The End of an Era - Hugh HoweyWe knew this day would come. Some of us have known for decades, have been writing and pontificating about this since Ken Jennings lost at Jeopardy and Kasparov lost at chess. The writing was on the wa...hughhowey.com

feel like this poor student is catching strays when it's perfectly ok to express feeling uncomfortable by a short story or novel and they are not known to have tattled or complained to higher ups. it's the admin and gov't censors who should be embarrassed and mocked

Fascinating article on exciting/promising developments in synthetic cell research with a daunting number of risk-reward questions..

Is it a chemical? Is it alive? Oversight in the coming era of synthetic cells could be complicatedLab-designed cells could someday be used in medicine, environmental cleanup, or manufacturing. Imagine spraying biosensing cells on a wall to test for hidden mold or swallowing a pill full of cells th...thebulletin.org

oooooh nooooo whoever could have seen this coming

After Obamacare Cuts, Hospitals Are Treating More Uninsured PatientsMore people who lost coverage after congressional Republicans ended enhanced federal subsidies are now seeking care in emergency rooms and unable to pay bills.www.nytimes.com

related: anyone in bk/nyc have a good dr they want to recommend?

just checking in on the midnight in the garden of good and evil which has been "coming to broadway soon" since 2025 at least and a touch disappointed to see this promotional blurb... it's not just ai—it's also really bad ad copy

has anyone else seen the zyn ad the white house posted on tiktok

omg bluesky mention on this jeopardy episode!!

well it happened: i lifted something heavy and used my back instead of my legs and now i have low level back strain. suggestions for how to fix?? ignoring it completely hasn't helped...

ok i KNOW it's a lil bit silly to ask ai to identify ai writing and there's lots of examples of false positives or whatever but i was using the uchicago ai to check something and followed my colleague @saragoud.bsky.social's suggestion to feed it one of my own pieces as a control and...i'm so proud